There are six landscape maintenance assessment districts (LMAD) within the City of Salinas that were created under the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 (the Act), and adopted locally in Article II, Chapter 21C of the Salinas Municipal Code. The Act allows property owners to assess themselves within a specified area, or “district” in order to generate funds for installing, maintaining, and servicing public lighting, landscaping, and improvements in their neighborhood. The City renews these assessments annually. Council adopts the necessary resolutions in June and sets public hearings in July in order to approve all districts' engineer's reports and levying of assessments in order to meet the August 1 assessment roll due date to the Monterey County Assessor's Office.
June 2023 City Council Report Setting Public Hearing
The District assessments provide a dedicated source of funding for the maintenance and operation of and the furnishing of services and materials for the District improvements including maintenance, repair, and operation of all walkways, crosswalks, masonry walls or fences, parkways, embankments, sprinkler systems, and landscaping that lie within the right-of-way of Moffett Street, La Guardia Street, and Vandenburg Street and associated improvements as allowed under the Salinas Municipal Code and the Lighting and Landscape Act of 1982 (the “Act”).
Following is a breakdown of expenditures for this fiscal year through April 30, 2024.
Final 23-24 Airport Business Center Engineers Report(PDF, 2MB)
The City of Salinas (the “City”) established the Harden Ranch Maintenance District to provide a source of funding for the on-going maintenance of the amenities that were installed for the benefit of the parcels within the District. The district was created under Article II, Chapter 21C of the City of Salinas Municipal Code and the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 of the State of California.
The assessments provide for the maintenance and operation of and the furnishing of services and materials for street lighting facilities, masonry walls, detention basins, open space areas, landscaping, irrigation systems, bike paths, pedestrian pathways, slope maintenance, graffiti abatement, entry monuments, landscaping which includes trees, shrubs, grass, and other ornamental vegetation, and appurtenant facilities, including irrigation systems and drainage devices within the District.
Following is a breakdown of expenditures for this fiscal year through April 30, 2024.
Final 23-24 Harden Ranch Maintenance District Engineers Report(PDF, 3MB)
The Mira Monte Assessment District was formed with the purpose of funding maintenance, repair, reconstruction, and operation of the landscaping, irrigation systems, and public improvements within said district. Public improvements include curbs, gutters, asphalt street improvements, sidewalks, masonry walls, concrete-paver driveway clusters, parkway strips adjacent to curbs, landscape easements, tot lots, landscaped open space parcels, appurtenant water mains, irrigation systems, public lighting fixtures on all streets and driveway clusters.
Final 23-24 Mira Monte Engineers Report(PDF, 2MB)
The District was created in 2004, after the passage of Proposition 218 in 1996, which established Article XIIID of the State Constitution and the District is subject to the legal requirements of Proposition 218. The District assessments include built‐in inflationary factor based on the annual change in the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”).
The District assessments provide a dedicated source of funding for the maintenance and operation of the District improvements, including landscaping along the street corridors within the Development and along portions of Sconberg Parkway, Freedom Parkway and Williams Road that are directly adjacent to the Development. Other District improvements include local street lighting (including energy costs), routine street maintenance and associated appurtenances located within the public right‐of‐ways. All of the District improvements are allowed under the Salinas Municipal Code and the Lighting and Landscape Act of 1982 (the"Act").
Following is a map (updated April 11, 2024) identifying the location and type of most improvements covered by the Monte Bella Landscape District's assessments. Note, the map does not depict the district-wide street lights or street sweeping services, which are also funded by the Monte Bella Landscape Assessment District.
Following is a chart of maintenance-related expenditures for this Fiscal Year, July 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024.
Final FY 23-24 Monte Bella Engineers Report(PDF, 3MB)
The assessments provide a dedicated source of funding for the maintenance, operation of and the furnishing of services and materials for the North/East Area District improvements including any and all public landscaping
and irrigation improvements on landscaped medians islands, including the 30-foot wide park strips of land between the curb and right-of-way, cul-de-sac median landscaping, jogging paths, planter walls public lighting and associated improvements as allowed under the Salinas Municipal Code and the Lighting and Landscape Act of 1972 (the “Act”).
Following is a breakdown of maintenance-related expenditures for this fiscal year, July 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024.
Final FY 23-24 North East District Engineers Report(PDF, 3MB)
The Vista Nueva Maintenance District was formed for the purpose of installing and maintaining the telephone/alarm system for the Sanitary Sewer Pump Station; monitoring and maintaining a sanitary sewer pump station twice a week, and a sanitary sewer main four times a year with City forces, or as needed; maintaining street pavement providing maintenance and power for a new street light system; and maintaining subdivision fence. This maintenance, servicing and operation is in accordance with NPDES requirements of the City of Salinas storm water permit.
Final FY 23-24 Vista Nueva Engineers Report(PDF, 2MB)